Ive never said the death of .eu will ever happen.. in fact those are very good imho. .mobi though isnt in my book... lets take a different angle at this discussion...
Why use mobi at ALL? Ohh you say... because then I can display html for my users mobile devices... and how do you tell WHICH mobile device they have when they come to your site?
Most programmers will use something similar to browserhawk. To tell the dimensions of the screen.
http://www.browserhawk.com/Default.aspx?bhcp=1
Guess what??? surprise! You can use this to display the mobile content to EXACTLY the correct screen size when your phone user, your pda user and any other wierd screen size comes browsing your web page. And the user doesnt have to remember anything other than your companies main .com website.
So again wheres the NEED for .mobi... ? And yes OQO or another similar UMPC provider will put Vista into your next cell phone in a few years... with full OS and a full browser..not the junk mini browsers we use now. Then the only argument is because we can display the correct content on the mini devices...
again, remember browserhawk...or a similar product... which then makes mobi useless once again and in fact MORE of a burden because a company must brand 2 urls... their .com and then push into consumers minds this mobi concept...
uh yeah...good luck with that.